1920
3618

TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF RESORTS AND SANATORIUMS
OF THE CAUCASUS

August 17, 1920

I request that every effort be made to ensure the best possible accommodation and medical treatment for the bearer, Comrade Inessa Fedorovna Armand, and her sick son.

I request that full confidence and every possible assistance be extended to these party comrades, who are personally known to me.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

NOTES ON SECRETARIES' MEMORANDA

August 17, 1920
13257

Reed requests that you receive him today for 5 minutes. Very important matter. At 9 o'clock?

Good. When the Council of People's Commissars ends. Vladimir Ilyich will certainly not receive John Reed—it's already late, the matter will drag on?

Reed is sitting in his room and waiting for a call. (He, incidentally, has learned Russian excellently!)

13258

If he is asking very much and for 5 minutes, let him come now.

ON RATIONS FOR LENINGRAD SCHOLARS

RESOLUTIONS ON LETTERS FROM A. M. GORKY

33886

August 18, 1920

I request that the Small Council examine this matter as quickly as possible and, if possible, satisfy it.*

* In his letter to the Council of People's Commissars, A. M. Gorky, on behalf of the Leningrad Commission for the Improvement of Scholars' Living Conditions, requested the preservation of 2,000 academic rations to be distributed to Leningrad scholars.

THE LENIN
COLLECTION

41082

October 21, 1920

To the Council of People's Commissars

Given that the Petrocommunal [authorities] intend to requisition products issued with the permission of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply by the Gubernia Food Committees for the Leningrad "Commission for the Improvement of Scholars' Living Conditions," the Chairman of the Leningrad Commission for the Improvement of Scholars' Living Conditions (KUBU) requests that the Council of People's Commissars decree:

All products issued with the permission of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply by the Gubernia Food Committees for the Leningrad Commission for the Improvement of Scholars' Living Conditions shall not be subject to requisition or credit against the norm of the ration for Leningrad scholars approved by the Council of People's Commissars on the part of Petrocommunal [authorities].

Grounds for the petition:

From the Petrocommunal ration, the scholar must set aside up to 6% for the benefit of the staff of the House of Scholars and often for the staff of such institutions as laboratories, studies, libraries, etc. If he does not feed his immediate assistants, they will disperse to ration positions. Furthermore, the scholar divides his ration with his family.

Therefore, the House of Scholars must necessarily purchase additional products in order to support its clientele, among whom there are not a few elderly and sick persons requiring increased nutrition.

M. Gorky

15890

NOTE ON A DRAFT DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOR AND DEFENSE,
WRITTEN BY I. V. STALIN

August 20, 1920

Decree of the Council of Labor and Defense

Instruct the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to issue an order to the Crimean and Caucasian fronts, obliging our divisions upon retreat to requisition from the population all food surpluses and to deprive of horses the territory temporarily abandoned by us (without offending the workers).

Approved by the Council of Defense.**

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

To the Small Council of People's Commissars. I request that this matter be examined as quickly as possible. From the attached it is clear that the Food Supply Commissariat's (central) order gives these products into the disposition of KUBU (Commission for the Improvement of Scholars' Living Conditions). Consequently, without the consent of the center, Petrograd has no right to requisition and credit!

Lenin

* The text of the draft decree was written by I. V. Stalin; the phrase in parentheses and the note on approval were written by V. I. Lenin.